"Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years."

"Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized."

"The true test of a civilization is not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the cropsa€”no, but the kind of man the country turns out."

"Personally I think birthdays and anniversaries are like menstrual cramps, a regular pain in the ass that's somehow connected to birth."

"Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men."

"It is remarkable how similar the pattern of love is to the pattern of insanity."

"LUMINARY, n. One who throws light upon a subject; as an editor by not writing about it."

"If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice."

"No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true."

"For I dipt into the future, as far as human eye can see, saw the vision of the world, and the wonder that would be."